Dame Dash has lost another movie due to the $823,000 judgment he currently owes for losing a lawsuit.
According to a legal document obtained by Complex, the lawyers for Josh Webber got permission from a federal judge to auction off Dash’s 2022 film Stoned, which is registered to Dame Dash Studios LLC, due to the judgment owed to Webber “not being satisfied.”
This came about because as a condition of the judgment, all of Dash's other films — registered to his company Poppington LLC — were auctioned off. But Stoned was copyrighted under a different company name, Dame Dash Studios, so it initially escaped Webber's notice.
However, Dash has testified at other times that Dame Dash Studios and Poppington LLC are one in the same. Webber, in a court filing, characterized the "Dame Dash Studios" name as "a fake registrant for a copyright." As a result of all this, the judge in the case ordered Stoned to be auctioned off.
The logline for the film, listed on IMDB as Dame Dash Studios Presents Stoned, is, “In this hilarious movie escapade, two friends from opposite sides of life, partner up in a mission to help each other grow — and find weed.”
Dash losing the film is the latest L he’s taken in his ongoing legal battle with Webber. In 2022, he lost a defamation and copyright infringement lawsuit brought by the filmmakers, which resulted in a $823,000 judgment he hasn’t paid. Dash was ordered to turn over full ownership of his businesses and some movie titles in order to satisfy the debt. Two years later, Dash was sued by Webber again after the former made comments about the filmmaker and others “stealing my shit” that cost Webber a directing job. In the lawsuit, Webber won again, with a $4 million judgment against Dash that was likewise never paid out.
In December, Webber went for the jugular again with a third lawsuit claiming that Dash's threat to file a RICO lawsuit against Webber and others unless they paid him $100 million ended up costing the filmmaker a $10 million directing and producing gig.
Last September, Dash filed for bankruptcy in Florida, claiming that he owes $25 million and only has $100 in cash.
